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HORTICULTURE 



May 1, 1909 



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CONTENTS 



Page 

 COVER ILLUSTRATION— Aquatic Pool In a "French 

 Garden." 



EUROPEAN HORTICULTURE— Frederick Moore 625 



IMPROVEMENTS AT KEW— W. H. Adsett 625 



PROFESSOR GOODALE RESIGNS CHAIR AT HAR- 

 VARD— Portrait 627 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED 627 



NEWS OP THE CLUBS AND SOCIETIES: 

 Connecticut Horticultui'al Society — Florists' and Gar- 

 deners' Club of Rhode Island— Society of American 

 Florists— American Carnation Society— Chrysanthe- 

 mum Society of America 628 



Club and Society Notes 629 



PITTSBURGH SPRING SHOWS— James Hutchinson... 629 



ROSES UNDER GLASS— Louis J. Renter 630 



CARNATION SHASTA— Illustrated 631 



PHALAENOPSIS SCUILLERIANA— Frederick Moore.. 631 

 ARBORVITAE MONUMENTALIS— Martin L. Benson.. 631 



A DESTRUCTIVE EXPLOSION 632 



REFLECTIONS ON THE TORONTO CATASTROPHE 



— W. W. Castle 632 



THE OUTLOOK FOR PLANT BREEDING — Dr. H. J. 



Webber 633 



OBITUARY: 

 Benjamin Simonito— Walter S. Hogg— Lewis J. Risser 

 —Robert Cragg— Herman Dreyer- W. A. Reichardt— 



Mrs. A. K. Peterson 634 



PLANTING FOR WINTER EFFECT IN THE NORTH- 

 ERN STATES— George E. McClure 636 



SEED TRADE: 

 A Questionable Policy— Seed Stocks Running Low 



and Values Soaring — Notes 638 



OF INTEREST TO RETAIL FLORISTS: 



Detroit— Steamer Departui'es 640 



Flowers by Telegraph 641 



FLOWER MARKET REPORTS: 



Boston — Chicago — Indianapolis— Philadelphia 643 



New York 645 



MISCELLANEOUS: 



Nursery Inspection in New York 627 



Chicago Notes 629 



New Head Gardener for Providence Parks, Portrait — 



Fred C. Greene 633 



A Tender Appieciatlon 633 



Catalogues Received 636-638 



To Extend and Improve Minneapolis Parks 636 



Patents Granted 636 



News Notes 640-643 



Business Changes— Philadelphia Notes M'x 



Business Changes 641 



Philadelphia Notes 641 



Albany Notes — pprsnnal 'i'*'' 



A Cure for Red Spider— A. H. Seeker 645 



Bowling at St. Paul 645 



Greenhouses Building or Contemplated 651 



Our London correspondent writes 



The hippeastrum intpreptingly of the progress being 



for florists' use iDnde in the improvement of the 



nippeastrums by the Veitchs. 



We know that other British and continental breeders 



are also working on this beautiful genus and we have 



been able to record notable successes in this line of late 



by some of our own private gardeners. Some two years 



ago a series of articles on Amaryllis by John Thorpe 

 attracted considerable attention. It is very likely that 

 with the increased interest being manifested in their 

 improvement and multiplication we shall presently see 

 Ihe amaryllis attaining popularity as a florists' specialty 

 as a cut flower and as a pot plant. There would seem to 

 be plenty of room for it at Easter, especially, as a com- 

 panion for the lilies and to liven up their monotonous 

 white. Possibly some- ingenious hybridist may find a 

 way to produce Hippeastrums with more upright flowers 

 poised on more graceful and slender stems, which would 

 add materially to their decorative value as cut flowers. 



Our views on the duality of the 



The rose breeders' rose hybridisers' field as editorially 



double chance expressed in the issue of HoRTl- 



CULTOEE for Marcli 'JOth gain con- 

 firmation in the April 17th number of The Garden in 

 whicli a life-sized drawing of E. G. Hill's Ehea Eeid is 

 given in connection with interesting notes on the be- 

 liavior of this American rose in England. The writer 

 says that "It is difficult to select a rose of finer growth 

 or one more hardy. It has stood an indifferent summer 

 and a very severe winter and spring. It is difficult to 

 name a more hardy and all-round useful rose." It is 

 well known that Mr. Hill's aim and ambition with Rhea 

 Reid was to establish a new high record in the forcing 

 rose class. We cannot yet say that he has not done 

 so but it is fairly well settled, after but one season's 

 test, that in Rhea Reid he has put out an ever-blooming 

 garden rose par excellence, for it has lived through the 

 winter in the vicinity of Boston unscathed and the 

 flowers produced last summer rivalled the best of the 

 H. P. standards. The rose breeder has two chances 

 where the carnation breeder has but one. 



The news of the lamentable disaster at 

 After the Toronto has doubtless awakened disqui- 

 explosion etude and anxiety in many places where 

 hitherto confidence has been taken on trust 

 as it were. The conviction forces itself that what has 

 occurred in Toronto is liable to happen elsewhere at any 

 moment wherever steam heating outfits are maintained 

 without full realization of the ever-present peril. "He 

 is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap" 

 and it is to be lioped that the lesson taught in this 

 instance may be well taken to heart by any who liave 

 been unmindful of the mighty volcanoes slumbering in 

 the heating outfit of the modern greenhouse establish- 

 ment. Knowledge acquired in the little stoke-holes of 

 the old-time hot water heaters counts for little in the 

 operation of the vast flower factories which are now 

 springing up on all sides and the boiler house, from 

 being an ordinary adjunct in the florists' equipment, 

 has now become the most important department. In 

 the light of recent events it is realized that the topic 

 demands more attention than we have been giving it and 

 we are glad to be able to publish the very practical ad- 

 vice contained in tlie communication in another column 

 of tl)is paper from the pen of W. W. Castle, a man well 

 informed on the subject of heating engineering, and 

 what he has to say is worth a very careful reading. We 

 shall not be surprised if one result of this destructive 

 boiler explosion should be the stibstitution of safe hot- 

 water systems under forced circulation in many places 

 where steam lias been in use heretofore. One thought 

 more — should not the widespread sympathy which has 

 been expressed by American growers on behalf of their 

 stricken fellow craftsmen "across the line" take some 

 more substantial form, such as contributions of material 

 for re-stocking? The case is surely one to justify some 

 concerted action. 



